ABSTRACT
Sir,—Jane Hine, wife of private Edwin Hine, of the No. 2 company of the 47th Regiment, with her two children under five years of age, and Elizabeth Pitman, wife of John Pitman, private in the 77th company of the Chatham division of Royal Marines, with her four children under 15 years of age, are now in this union chargeable to the parish, in consequence of their respective husbands having been ordered, the one to Constantinople, and the other to the Baltic on board Her Majesty’s ship Tribune. The poor women are most deeply distressed, and are desirous of making their appeal for assistance for their children through your widely circulated columns. I, therefore, have undertaken the case for them, and I am sure they will not appeal in vain. I believe them to be deserving objects, and the poor woman Pitman has a deserving boy, now in his tenth year, whom she is desirous of getting into the Naval School at Greenwich, and I trust that this statement of her case will speedily accomplish the object.
